In John L. Smith’s Nov. 12 column about green energy, he quoted a story from the High Country News, which is publishing this clarification about its story: “Our story, ‘Clean energy’s dirty secret,’ stated that the California Wind Energy Association hired a biologist, who argued that certain wind turbines were ‘too big to cut birds in half.’ In fact, the biologist, who has been affiliated with CalWEA, made that claim separately.”